Our obituary column today contains an announcement of the death of Mrs. Wainwright who was widely known for her efforts in the Temperance cause, a sick visitor, instructor of the young, and a zealous christian worker.

She was an active member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Association and a missionary collector for 30 years, having collected in that period over £200. Her utter disregard for self when she could be of service to others will invest her memory with much veneration; as the numerous inquiries and testimonies already received bear evidence.

Her funeral will take place on Friday (to-morrow) at the Cemetery, being proceeded by a service at 3.30 in the Primitive Methodist Church, of which she had many years been a member. The funeral sermon will be preached on the following Sunday evening.

sources Newbury Weekly News 12 March 1885

Her gravestone reads as follows:

IN FOND MEMORY OF OUR LOVING MOTHER

MARY ANN WAINWRIGHT

AT REST MARCH 10TH 1885 AGED ?31 (verse eroded)

(she was in fact 51)

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